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Re: Colored output
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Akim Demaille |
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Re: Colored output |
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Sun, 27 Jan 2019 19:44:51 +0100 |
Hi Jim!
> Le 27 janv. 2019 à 17:22, Jim Meyering <address@hidden> a écrit :
>
> Hi Akim,
> I too would start with coreutils, noting that one must be careful to
> handle signals, so that the terminal is not left in a bad state when
> output is interrupted between a pair of set/reset escape sequences.
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/src/ls.c#n1303
> Today I was surprised to see that while grep and recent diffutils also
> have --color support, grep lacks the signal-handling code that is
> present in both coreutils and diffutils.
Good point, thanks for heads up!